Biscotti di Polenta

Name: Biscotti di Polenta (Polenta Biscuits)
Yield: Makes about 50 biscuits
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 200 g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing; 200 g granulated sugar; finely grated zest of 1 lemon; 4 eggs, beaten; ½ tsp baking powder; 100 g plain flour; 300 g quick polenta

Polenta Biscuits

Preparation info

Makes about
50
biscuits

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Antonio Carluccio – The Collection

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2012

About

“I love polenta in every guise. In Piedmont where I spent my youth, there are many polenta biscuits, but none with the crispness I achieved by using polenta svelta, the quick polenta flour. These biscuits are wonderful as accompaniments to fresh fruit salads, or dipped into zabaglione.”

Ingredients

200 g unsalted butter, softened, plus extra for greasing
200 g granulated sugar
300</

Europe
Italy
Piedmont
Vegetarian
Cookies
Mediterranean

Method

Preheat the oven to 200°C/Gas 6.

Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl. Take a piping bag and fill it with the mixture. Pipe the mixture onto a greased baking tray in either little dots or S shapes. Leave a generous amount of space between the shapes as the biscuits